A Margate man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for planning targeted assaults on Jewish and Black Americans.
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), 41-year-old John Kevin Lapinski Jr. pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a handgun, possession of a firearm by a person subject to a court order, possession of an unregistered silencer, and possession of body armor by a violent felon.
On October 31, 2024, officers from the Margate Police Department (MPD) responded to shots fired in a Margate area. Inside his home, officers discovered a shooting target depicting a Black man with bullet wounds…